Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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son earth they stood again to battle, saw thefiery form of A. P. Hill leading his columnson; but it is a wonder and a shame that thegrave of this valiant Virginian in Hollywoodcemetery has not a stone to mark it and keepit from oblivion. The battle at Sharpsburg was the result ofunforeseen circumstances and not of deliberatepurpose. It was one of the bloodiest of the war,and a defeat for both armies. The prestige ofthe day was with Lee, but when on the night ofthe 18th he recrossed into Virginia, although,as the Comte de Paris says, he left not asingle trophy of his nocturnal retreat in thehands of the enemy, he left the prestige of theresult with McClellan. And yet when it isknown that General McClellan had 87,000troops at hand, and General Lee fought thebattle with less than 35,000, an army depletedby battles, weakened by privations, brokendown by marching, and ruined by strag-gling, it was unquestionably on the Confed-erate side the best fought battle of the war. Henry Kyd Douglas.
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A UNION CHARGE THROUGH THE CORN-FIELD. HARPERS FERRY AND SHARPSBURG. WHEN General Lee began his campaignagainst Pope I was in command of adivision (of three brigades) which was nota part of either of the two corps of the Armyof Northern Virginia. I was left on theJames for the defense of Richmond, butafter the evacuation of Harrisons Landingby the remnants of McClellans army, theConfederate capital being no longer threat-ened, I was ordered by the Secretary ofWar to leave one of my brigades at Rich-mond, and proceed with the other two tojoin General Lee in the field. Leaving Dan-ielss brigade on the James, I marched north-word with my old brigade, the strongest andthe one which had seen most service, at thattime commanded byColonel Van H. Man-ning, and with the iAbrigade of GeneralRobert Ransom. It was our hopethat we should over-take General Lee intime to take part inthe Second Manassas;but when we reachedthat field we found itstill strewn with theunburied dead ofPopes army, and Leep

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